Sustainability Assessment of Regional Development Based on the Ecological Footprint Model: A Case Study of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Northwest China

Author

Lu, Chengpeng ; Chen, Xingpeng ; Zhang, Zilong ; Jiao, Wenting ; Xue, Bing ; Zhao, Bo

Author_Institution

Coll. of Earth & Environ. Sci., Lanzhou Univ., Lanzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

25-28 March 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Ecological Footprint model is an important method to evaluate the sustainability of regional development. This paper assesses the area demand of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region by calculates the Ecological Footprint and the Ecological Carrying Capacity in the 20 years from 1986 to 2005.The results show that Ecological Deficits occurred and then continued to increase, which demonstrate that great human-environment conflicts existed, and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region was in a state of unsustainable development, which poses a grave threat to the stability and sustainable development of the regional ecological economic system.

Keywords

ecology; environmental factors; sustainable development; ecological carrying capacity; ecological deficits; ecological footprint model; regional development; regional ecological economic system; sustainability assessment; sustainable development; time 20 year; Area measurement; Economics; Ecosystems; Humans; Sea measurements; Sustainable development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2011 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2157-4839

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6253-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2011.5748609

Filename

5748609